Device for impressing seals on papers.



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g jAPPLIpATIoNTILBnMAR.27,1908.

Patente@ Jan. 26,- 1909.

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FELIX GOTTSCHALK, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO ADJUSTABLE SEAL COMPANY,OF

` NEW YORK, N. Y., A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

DEVICE FOR IMPRESSING SEALS ON PAPERS.-

Patented Jan. 26, 1909.

Application led. March 27, 1908. Serial No. 423,508.-

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FELIX Gror'rsCHAan,` a citizen of the United States of America, and resident of New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Devices' for Impressing Seals on Papers, 'of

which the following is a full, clear, and exact description. y i

Onefobject of this invention is to provide a device for impressing notarial, corporate or other seals, or like 'im ressions, on papers, whichby the structure .character thereof is especially available and convenient to enable one to impress the seal always right side up and at any portion on the widtlfof a legal or other paper. y

Another object is to provide a locking device for the movable seal die carrying plunger or part so'that it becomes necessary to use a special key in order to eiiect a seal imr'essing operation or operations. And a 'urther object is to produce a sealing device having the advantages herein rendered apparent-which is of extreme simplicity, and practicability of construction at very low cost.

The invention consists inthe device made as hereinafter described in conjunction with the accompanying drawings and set forth in the claims.

In the drawings,--Figure 1 is a side elevation of the seal impressing device; Fig. 2- is a centrally transverse vertical section on line 2 2, Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a View similar to Fig. 2, but showing the movable seal as in its lowered position and there locked. v

In the drawings-A representsl a frame for the sealing device which consists ot an integrally formed, comparatively low, and horizontally` elongated casting having an aperture c therethrough, extending from front to rear, and also as to its greater longitudinal dimension nearly to the en'ds of the casting, which latter comprises the portions b which unite its base d with its over-ranging beam-like memberf. The said elongated aperture becomes widened in height from its somewhat contracted middle portion towards its end portion as particularly shown in Fig. l.

B represents a sealing die aHiXed en the middle portionof the frame buse member and C represents the companion die Inova-bly carried at the lower end of the vertical plunger e, fitted through a vertiealbore therefor in the middle portiony ofthe ufperA frame memberf, having at its up er en a shoude" g, coacting with which is t e cam-ended o erating lever D for downwardly forcing t, e die carrying plunger, while one or more spiral springs h are provided in a lsocket or 'sockets therefor in the frame adjacent the shoulder and exert an upward reaction thereagainst `for the elevation ofthe plunger and die.

In the front side of the frame member-f is a circular socket i in which is fitted the. cylindrical casing or barrel'j of a Yale or other suitable or approved description of lock, such barrel having a key way m thereinfor a special key n; andthe barrel carries at its inner end an endwise extended locking member or bolt o. The socket at a suitable portion in the length thereof is made with one or several holes p in which one or several radially mo'yable and key controlled pins or tumblers g of the lock engage, with capability of inward withdrawal and disengagement therefrom vas common in pin tumbler locks.

The pins ,or tumblers, or several sets thereof, are operative to revent rotative move- .ment of the lock cy inder or barrel excepting as Warrantably done by the utilization of the key. There is, moreover, in the wall of the socket a camv groove t in which is enaged a stud fu, affixed toand rejecting raially from the side ofthe barre and, therefore, so soon as the barrel, by the action of the key, isnnlcked to turn so that thebarrel Amay be endwise moved, the rotative movements imparted to the rvbarrel, by the key, in-

sures, by the impingement of 'the stud u in v carrying plunger, unlocking the seals which had 'been closed to ether as shovm in Fig. 3,

so they are free to e used as seen'by the 'relations of the parts in Fig. 2.

l For racticability and greatest convenience, tllie socket in which the lock barrel is fitted and in which it both rotates and moves endwise is comprised in a shell or bushing Q2 which is driven, screwed, or otherwise secured in a transverse opening therefor in the frame.

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Q l einen? Inasmuch as the end portions b, t, of the ame, are curved on their inner faces, they virtually form guides for the rolled or doubled parts of papers which are more or less bulky. Moreover, since the tendency of a doubled mass of papers is to assume its normal extended state, the slot a, narrowing as its center is ap reached, will retain the tree end ortions ot the doubled papers in their doub ed condition, and will force the papers at their doubled point, Where the thickness is greater, against ends l), b, in the curved seat thereof, and thus Will secure the papers against movement, leaving the hands of the o erator free to manipulate lever D, and the s eet of paper to receive the seal at the point where the seal is to be impressed. It will be further seen that lever l), may be operated either to the right or left, and since it has a central location on the frame the seal may be impressed with equal eli'eet regardless of its direction of operation. It is, moreover, amere matter of election whether the lock is operative for locking the seal in its closed position as shown in Fig. 3 or in its open (position, as'the devices might be arrange te do; but it may be stated that 1f thesealwere to be locked when in its open position a meddler might, by exerting an nnreasonable amount of strength on the seal operating' member, break or injure the meehanism. It will further be noted that since the ends (2, b, of the frame provide rigid, substantial support' for the i oper frame memberf, and since the latter sags at its central part, the upper frame member will be supported as to be capable of giving at its eenter, at which point the die C operates, thereby roviding a resilient bed for the die (l.

A/Sseal impression may be made by lliisdevice right side np, and at any place on the Width of a legal, or other paper, owing to the comparatively long spaces comprised in' the aperture (L both to the right and left of the axis of the seal, and between the seal and the uniting portions b b of the frame, and owing to the vertical widening of the spaces, if the papers are extremely wide they may be more or dated in one or the other of the ends of the elongated a erture while the seal immpression is being madjc. To lock the die C, in down position same is moved by hand to the position shown in Fig. 3, against the action of s ring h, member l), being retained in vertica position, which leaves a s )ace between the head g, of plunger e, and tie cam lever of l), in which space the bolt of the lock is projected. As depicted in Fig. 2, the head g, is in position to engage on its under side, the bolt leek, when the latter is moved to locked position.

I claim 1. A seal composed of a frame, a stationary die thereon, a movable die having a head 1n upper or down position, said means engaging the top of said head when locking said movable die in down position, and engagin r the under side of said head when locking said movable die in upper osition.

2. A seal eomposm of a frame, a stationary and a movable die carried by said frame, a head carried by the movable die, and a leek including a movable boltfor engagement with ,I the under and upper faces of said head to I leek said movable die in upper and down positions respectively.

Signed by me at New York city, it. Y., in presence of tivo subscribing witnesses.

,l FELIX GOTTSCK'IALK. l Witnesses ll. A. ("nosBY, I WiLLIMr B. (,i..\FI.IN.

ess rolled at their edge and easily accommo-` thereon, and means to lock said movable die 

